rsync time machine backup permissions

Fabian Cenedese Cenedese at indel.ch
Mon Mar 19 13:12:45 UTC 2018


At 11:22 19.03.2018, Andre Althoff via rsync wrote:

>Dear rsync users,
>
>I'm trying to copy my Time Machine Backup from my old USB hard drive to a new one. I got error messages, because rsync don't create group and other permissions.
>
>Did I use the correct parameters? Who has an idea, what mistake?
>
>rsync: failed to set times on "/Volumes/G-DRIVE Thunderbolt 3/Backups.backupdb/iMac/Latest": Operation not permitted (1)

Looks to me more like you have not enough rights to set times etc.
So you'd need to run the script as root.

bye  Fabi




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